Project

What is in hair dye and how can it affect YOUR hair?








By:
Jenay Smith, Chanei Moe, Michell’e Long, Jahmilla Muse

Abstract

The purpose of this experiment is to distinguish between the damage caused by three different hair colors. The experiments involved dyeing hair with three different colors and looking at the hair before and after to see if there was any damage. The results show that the blond dye caused more damage on the hair. There was more bleach in the blond hair dye and that is what caused more damage to the hair. These findings led us to believe that the more bleach in your hair dye will cause the most damage to hair.

Question:

Does the difference in the chemistry of hair dyes by color affect hair follicles differently?

Hypothesis:

The difference in the chemistry of hair dyes by color does affect hair follicles differently. The lighter the hair dye the more damage.

Materials:

-3 different hair dye color tubes

1. 92 light beige blonde chardonnay

2. 10 black licorice

3. 630 light golden brown

-3 pre-packaged developer cremes

-3 pairs of latex gloves

-6 spoons

-8 styro-foam bowls

-6 coffee filters

-Water

-Binocular microscope

-Light microscope

-Science goggles

-2 different samples of hair








Procedures:

1. Put on gloves

2. Twist off each applicator tip of the developer cream bottles and remove caps

3. Pierce the colorant tubes

4. Squeeze the each tube contents in the indicated developer bottle and replace caps

5. Place sample 1 hair into 4 Styrofoam bowls

6. Apply each dye color to the separated sample 1 hair

7. Let set for 25 minutes

8. Follow steps 6&7 for sample hair 2

9. Using coffee filters carefully rinse all of the hair dye with warm water

10. Let hair samples dry for 24-48 hours

11. Using both microscopes inspect each of the hair samples1&2 both dyed and un-dyed

12. Record data


DATA TABLE – Hair Dye

Dye Type Sample 1 Sample 2
92 Light beige blonde chardonnay
Very bad damage Very bad damage
10 Black licorice No damage Very little damage
630 Light golden brown Very little damage Damage


Observation

Both sample 1&2 with blonde the damage was very bad; there were more splits on the hair then on the original un-dyed hair. When sample 1 was dyed black there was no damage at all and was basically the same as the un-dyed hair. Sample 2 black dyed hair showed very little damage but was enough to be seen. Sample 1 black had no damage and was the same as the original. Sample 2 golden brown had some damage that was visible. Sample 2 golden brown had very little damage that could be seen with the light microscope.

Conclusion

The hypothesis was correct. The observation shows that the blond hair dye caused the most damage. Brown hair dye caused hair damage but, blond hair dye caused split ends and the hair is weaker. The cause of the damage from lightening hair using hair dye is bleach. Hydrogen peroxide is one of the most common lightening agents (bleaches). The peroxide is used in an alkaline solution, which opens the hair shaft to allow the peroxide to react with the melanin. The bleach reacts with the melanin in hair, removing the color in an irreversible chemical reaction. The bleach oxidizes the melanin molecule. The melanin is still present, but the oxidized molecule is colorless. However, bleached hair tends to have a pale yellow tint. The yellow color is the natural color of keratin, the structural protein in hair. Also, bleach reacts more readily with the dark eumelanin pigment than with the phaeomelanin, so some gold or red residual color may remain after lightening.

During the experiment hair dye could have been mixed together, another substance could of gotten in to the individual hair dye, the hair could have been wet when we looked at it, or we altogether could have not dyed the hair. Those are different ways the experiment could have been altered.







Bibliography
1.)http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/2001/E/200115621.html:University of Southern California;January 2001. This paper helped us to understand that different kinds of hair dye can effect you in different ways but it depends on how you do it and how long you have been dye your hair.
2.)http://ojas.ucok.edu/02/papers/Souza02.htm:Staci Souza. Staci Souza's research paper on hair dye and its effects opened our eyes to the effect of UVB irradiation on human hair tensile strength.Which means that ultraviolet rays can penetrate into the cortex and disturb the hair cortex’s fiber-like cells that give the hair its elasticity and strength, as well as damage the color and burn the hair cuticle.
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Received 5 March 2003; accepted 13 June 2003. ; Available online 4 November 2003. This helps us find the potential color effect on natural colored hair and the various drugs in hair dye that abuse natural hair colors the nutural haira strength.
4.)http://www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/fsc/backissu/oct2001/mzkowski.htm:Thomas M. Mieczkowski;Professor Department of Criminology
University of South Florida St. Petersburg, Florida. This paper is an analysis for drugs that can damage your natural hair and how they have become a more common method for hair dye makers to use in their dyes.
5.)http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/full/134/8/2053S:Katrin Busch Kschiewan,, Jürgen Zentek Franz, Josef Wortmann ,Vincent Biourge;WALTHAM International Science Symposium: Nature, Nurture, and the Case for Nutrition. This study of hair dye and different kinds of hair helps us with our project by giving us some inlightment on how our project should look like and what types of hair dye to use that is the most common dye use by women.
6.)http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pres/jat/2003/00000027/00000008/art00002:Rollins D.E, Wilkins D.G, Krueger G.G, Augsburger M.P, Mizuno A, O'Neal C, Borges C.R, Slawson M.H;Preston Publications, Center for Human Toxicology, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah 2: Department of Dermatology, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah.This paper is about he influence on drugs that are harmful to your hair that are found in dyes.